Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-10-20 | Page 20 | People in War Zone Will Starve

PEOPLE IN WAR " ZONE WILL STARVE WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Rations now allowea the German people and the civilian population of the occupied portions of northern France and Belgium, Bel-gium, details of which have justi reached the food administration, are insufficient to maintain bodily health and vigor. The French and Belgians get considerably con-siderably less than the amount apportioned ap-portioned to the German population and they get no meat except bacon. As announced today by the food administration, ad-ministration, the weekly ration to the Germans, stated In terms of American housekeeping, amounts to sufficient flour to bake 4 pounds of bread; one-half one-half peck of potatoes; a cupful each of beans, -peas and oatmeal; one-half pound of meat; twelve dominoes of , ....v iiiuiuuu.u iJiiLues oi butter and an equal amount of other fats. In northern France the weekly ration ra-tion allows sufficient flour for five pounds of bread; one-fifth of a peck of potatoes; one cupful of cereal, 12 1-3 ounces of bacon and lard and ten dominoes of sugar. Here meat, butter and margarine are all replaced by bacon and lard. The . allowance oft flour and cereals are slightly increased I but the allowance of sugar is also re-i duced. I no